Oh, geez. Whenever we'd sing that song on family car trips, my mom would then ask us "Why did the antelope?". Now that I'm older, I know that the answer is: because its frickin' in-laws werre driving it crazy.

OH! And I've been meaning to tell you for months, a propos shaving baby girls' heads: apparently, in many cultures, it's quite common to do this, in the belief that it makes the hair grow back thicker.

What Mimi said is true, many of my neighbours shave their girls heads before their first birthday. It has to do with removing the mother's hair from the baby though (as I have been told and it is part of their religion as well) more than the thickness in this case although I have heard that too in some European cultures.